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iussians Knife Aheiid Despite Nazi Resistance

‘istArniyAwaits Reinforcemen ts

Fight Bitter Holding Action While Preparing to Resume Offensive.

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Nazis Planning To Evacuate llommePs Army‘!

MOSCOW. Dee 6—(Al’i The Dioscow radio broadcast

m, purpose of evacuating shai Erwin Rolrilllfll from Africa.

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origin of the rflllflfl.

mm; from Athens today that about 100 Axis transports were

concentrated at Greek ports for Mar-

forces

“The u-gws consist chiefly 0| Germans." the broadcast Hid

reliably stated to have receiv- ed an order to evacuate Rom-

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LONDON-(CP) — The tobacco in Paris, aclording to reports reaching here.

that the siuokng of cigarct ends has income fashionable. DUBLlN~rCP)—P€ODic of the lrish Free State are to have in- crciised ion ration for Christmas

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Somcrs, 12.7-11 "lit Meliick Christmas Con- ltii at Pownal Hall Deoembgr 23‘. 1 -'i-i "Reserve Dec. 21st for Christ-

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BY BLAKE SULLIVAN Associated. Preal Staff Writer LONDON. Dec. 6 —(AP)— The

stalled British 1st Army with it; American ccmponenhs was report- ed fighting a bitter holding action in the face of daring German dive- bombin and tank attacks in the mounta around the Mateur- ‘rebourba-Djedeida Rim in North- ern Tunisia tonight while awaiting for important refnforcrrnents with which to resume its offensive.

Whiie Allied bombezs struck long- range but sharp blows on Axis supply centres, a new threat to the Axis position in Libya was taking form in the direction of the Sah- ara, 850 miles south of Tunis.

The Morocco radio, broadcasting a. corrmunique from the headquart- ers of French Gen. Henri Giraud said Mehari (native) compames had occupied heights on the Algeria- Tripolitania. frontier east of Djanet Djanet is in the southeastern cor- ner of Algeria. south of Tunisia and about 30 miles from the Libyan frontier. It is on the flank of a. possible route of invasion by Fight- ing French forces who might ad- vance from Fort Lrrny in French Equatorial Africa through southern Libya.

Another Morocco radio report said other American and French uzfts slashing‘ across southern Tim- isia toward t e coastal road linking Axis positions in Trlpolitanla and Tunisia had occupied a new fort- ified position.

Shililren Start $50,000 Fire

HALIFAX. Dec. 6 — (CP) Children playing about floating oil on the shore 1100i‘ eastern passage Saturday started a file that caused about $50,000 dame. e in the little ptrnmunity across t e harbor from 10113.

A match tossed on the drift oil

touched off flames that. lea d a road and destroyed seven dwe ings, 10 fish houses, 10 motor-boats and a large amount of fishing equipment. A wooden highway bridge a'so bnzned down, cutting road traffic in the area. Also damazcd was a chugcu hall. Firemen frrm Dartmouth trying to stem the flames were handicap- ed by inability to draw water from tliile sea because of the coating of o .

4,700-Ton Camp Debert Launched

EAST CANADIAN PORT. Dec. 0 —(OP)—-A 4.700-tOn steel freighter. the Camp Debert. was launched Saturday.

The launching brought only a brief muse in the work of building other ships in the yard. Right after the ceremony. the clatter of hammers and rlvetera started up attain as employees went. back to the task of btiildlna sister ships that will soon be launched.

Italians May Declare Rome An 0pen 0ity

By Frank Brutto Associated Prtsa Staff Writer

BEILNIL lwitaerland, Dec. 0 _(Ap).-A tcb from Rome Saturday night laid It wag "possible" that the Min- lat of efence and other de- par eats which could be considered military objectives l have been evacuated from home. ‘there was no official

be ii inariea to the declar- iii-J‘... an “oflh any.” the

device that saved Paris from deltrllotion by the Germans.) The Rome dispatch sell that In“? now palzlllllnd =- afnthe civilian“ fiend, en, ren f,” y Ytgtmbnt “other Inf‘;- matton waa considered to be of military ature and "author- ities ' ' ‘ bllca

and pu tlona are obaervlng complete silence." It uld, however, that it ap- peared the verniaent a long time an foreseen the need for Dfilllrn for the evac- uation of the m latrlea. Another llama diapatob had said earlier that the Pepe ex- pected to remain in‘ the bu- lloa in the eeutre of the

If bombing attacks IIQIIB.

Advance is Slowed By Defences

Heavy Fighting Re- ported From Three Sectors Of Front.

MOSCOW, Dec. 7 —Monddyl '- (AP)— 5015111115 as many as 30 desperate German counter-attacks in one day, Soviet Russian soldiers captured four Nazi strongpoints west of Rzhev Sunday while their tireless ccrnpanions pushed ahead in the Velikie Lukl area and south- west of Stalingrad over the bodies of hundreds of Germans, the Rus- sian; announced today.

The Sunday midnight soviet communique disclosed that the heaviest fighting yesterday took place southwest of Stalingrad and on the Velikie Luki and Rzhev fronts. west of Moscow.

Northwest of Stalingrad fierce Gcnnan counter-attacks also were repulsed. and the men of one unit were said to have annihilated about 800 Germans. In another sector of that area 300 of the enirny were left on the battlefield, the Rus- sians said.

In Stalingrad itself. the Russians said. the Rod Army destroyed four German gun em lacements and seven dugout; an silenced three artillery and six mortar batteries. A company of Germans was re- ported wiped out on the southern outskirts of the city.

Thus the Russians found them- selves meeting more and mo:e Ger- man resistance to a'l of their offen- sives as they knlfed deeper int/o more elaborate German fortific- ations.

News Briefs

CAIRO, Egypt, (APl--A powerful armada

g_ of four-engined United States Liberator bombers 3. " re the first American blow in his- tory at the Italian mainland yesterday and the smashing results included the sinking of a cruiser in the harbor of Naples, the crippling of a bai- tleship and square hits on a second cruiser

WINNIPEG, Dec. 6_iCP)—Ad- vance Bt-oups of delegates to the National Conservative Convention on "leadership and policy" Dec. 9-11 were pouring in o Winnipeg today in readiness for committee meetings which start tomorrow.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Dee. 6—(CP)— American airmen administered g heavy. demoralizing pasting to the entrenched Japanese at Buna today while Allied troops held expanding beach heads on both sides of Gena, companion enemy stronghold up the coast.

MONTREAL. Dec. 6—(CPi—Bus schedules over routes through Montreals war plant were back to normal today after 40f) striking drivers and mechanics returned to work on the promise their plea for a “closed shop" agreement would be heard at a ‘Tuesday meeting oil union and management offic- ia s.

Dec.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6- (CP) ——Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King and President

Roosevelt concluded two days of steady conferences in the quiet of the White House when Mr. King left today for Ottawa. The Prime Minister said he found the conferences "prof- itable and stimulating" and admitted that he and the Pres- ident emphasised post-war problems In their- discussions. OVITAWA. Dec. 5——(CP)—D0fl~ old Gordon Prices Board Chair- man announced last night that reductions in the price of coffee, tea and orangeherranged through the governments new subsidy and tax-remission plan-will go into effect Monday, Dec. 7, and that. milk price reductions will be ef- fective "weli before the end of this month."

Move tiivilians From Sicily?

LONDON. Dee. ‘i-(Mondan- (OPh-Rveuters reported hearing the Morocco radio broadcast an announcement early foda Germans had ordered t. Italla high command to evacuate civil- ians from Sicily, strategic Mediter- ranean islsnd which might cm- eeivably be used by the Allies as a stepping stone in invasion of Itaiv from North Africa.

The Morocco radio said, accord- ing to Reuters, that. a ltmng gar- rison under Gennan command won be stationed on the island. which lies between the Italian mainland and Tunisia. where the Allies and Axis have joined battle.

There were more than 2,000 army wounded. Nearly 1,000 more I

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The full story nf Pearl Harbor is

for offensive, not defensive use. Even including those staggering

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Blow at Pearl Harbor.

WASHINGTON, D60. 6 —(APi-—- Tlic United States Navy, in lhc first iili. report. of 1L5 losses at Pearl Harbor last Dec. 7. revealed Saturday that the surprise Jap- anese bluw sunk or damaged every American battleship-eight in all- in the Hawaiian area, 10 other ships and u large floating drydock.

Yet the job of raising and rc- palrlng these ships has been rush- ed at such a fur nus and successful Dace that more than half nave rejoined the fleet and on.y one, the torpedoed. bombed and buzhed battleship Arizona, is accounted a totiil loss.

The Naiyls Pearl Harbor anni- versary summary divided the ships hit there into Lwo’classcs:—-

Damaged hut Repaired

Damaged but soon repaired and which rejoined the fleet "months 08 I- Battleships Pennsylvania, Mary- land and Tennessee.

Cru sers Helena, Honolulu Ra eigh. Seaplane Tender Curtlss. Repair Ship Vestal.

and

Sunk or Badly Damaged

Sunk or damaged “so severely that they would serve no military purposes for some tlme":~

Battleships Arlzona,. Oakland, Cilfliiilblllili, Nevada and West Vlr-

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Destroyers Downcs,

Minelayer Oglala.

Tarsat Ship Utah.

A large Floating Drydock.

A lumber of these vessels, the Navy said, "are now in full serv- ice bill certain others. which re- quired extensive machinery and in- trlcate electrical overhauling as wgll as reflecting and hull repair-

Allies Make New Gains At Buna

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1N AUSTRALIA, Dec. 7—(Monday)—— (AlW-Hard-fighfing Allied troops in New’ Guinea have penetrated t0 the beach cast oi Buna. isolating an enemy pocket of resistance, the high command announced today.

Allied troops now have driven at least. three prongs through to the sea on the northeast shore of New Guinea, splitting the Japanese hold on the coast. Earlier oom- munitsues have told of the Allies exten ing- their beiwhheads both east and west of Gone.

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War Situation Last Night

(By Kirkc L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst)

Iii climmemorallon of the first anniversary of the Japanese sur- prise attack at Pearl Harbor which hurled the United States into the Wii‘. Washington has torn aside the curtain of secrecy to reveal in de- tail what happened on that “day of infamy"

It is an appalling picture. Within minutes "every battleship and most of the aircraft in the Hawaiian area" had been put out of action.

and navy dead and another 1.200 "missin_" on navy rolls. l

An armada of 86 fighting lhlpa and auxiliaries had been all but eliminated u an effective force. Only a handful of planes remained. The great Hawaiian raimpart of American naval defence in the Pacific Iov ail but iroluloss. The enemy had paid for it only in the loss of 2a Illanes and three midget submarines-and in the instant response of‘ America to demand vengeance whatever the r-osf in life m" treasure.

lluw overwhelming that demand still is, how effective "Veniuillly be l" "Si"!!! Vfineance upon not Japan alone hut upon the Whlilfi Axis fellowship, the events of the l2 months since that tragic day sufficiently reveal. Even Tokyo's war lords and their Nazi masters in Berlin can no longer doubt that Pearl Harbor was a mistake.

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a tale of heroism as well as tragedy,

of amazing pluck and skill not only at the guns but at the vital business of restoring the shattered fleet and the crippled base facilities quickly

fleet and air casualties a year ago

=11 PM“ "BT51". the attrition ratio ls running 5 to 1 against the

Jiliinnesc in ships of sea and sky, It fr. far- gr-Qatgr- than (ha; y“ men

started. a.

The primary reaction of any thoughtful observer to publication of the complete Pearl Harbor attack story must be to set it down ,1, m, utter Axis failure in a strategic sense’ It served neither- to drive Am". ican power out of the western Pacific and coop ii, up in homc waters for llciomive employment. nor prevented formidable and effective Am-

theatre.

Cives Full Report 0f Losses Last Dec. 7

M .18 Ships Sunk or Damaged in Surprise Jap

lug, are not. yet ready for baffle actcn."

Besides ships, losses were given as 80 naval and 97 army airplanes and the following personnel traauulties;

2.117 cffmers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps kil.cd, 960 missing and 876 wounded who sur- vived. iTlie Navy lists as cloud only those whose bodies are recovered.)

A my officers and men killed; 39G wounded "most of whom have new recovered and have returned to duty."

105 Jap Planes

All lliese losses, the Navy esti- muted, were inflicted by 105 Al)- nnese planes ivhlch, flying from (rurricrs ht. sea. slipped under file

easy peacetime Amerzeaii guard to make their tzea-iiiieroit and (iearlly attack at 7:55 8111., i-iawnli time- just as the watches were chang-

ing on the flcct lillli-S and while many of the personnel were at clii:..rl1 Services.

The Navy alone had 202 air-

craft on the island and the Army additional numbers, but many were destroyed or disabled on the gouiid. Thirty-eight iinvnl planes

' got into the air. including l8 which

took off from l'i carrier which arrived off Pearl Harbor ivliilc the attack was in progress. Four were shot. clown.

was not stated except. that were "iew“ but. shot down than 20 Japanese planes." action, tiic enemy lost c and three small, two-man Sllilfllill‘ lnes. These submarines also took part in the surprise attack but are believed not to have inflicted any damage on the fleet. ('I‘he Azmy isuiou stairtnent on its losses or damage to

they “tnore

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Baby Is Abandoned In Moncton Station

MONUION, N.B._ Dec il—-(CP) —A fair haired blue-eyed babv bov was found abandoned in the rail- way station here over the week-end. Less than four wee the warmly clad infant lav on a bench in the women's waiting room for over two hours before being noticed by a worker of the travelers’ aid The child was taken to the child- ren’! home in this city, Local and C NR. Police are investigating the case.

A Dllier bag filled with soiled baby clothes was found beside the in- an .

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House Burned At Tyne Valley

Fire early lust night destroyed the firm dwelling of Miss Rachael Grant at Tyne Valley. only a few articles weze saved frrrn the house. Loss was estimated unofficially at. be‘vveen $2.000 and $3.000.

Neighbors Ziitliered quickly SLIVfKi nearby barns. Many church services to heln.

Origin of tile fire was unknown. It began Mule Miss Grant's older sister, whose eyesight is failing, was alone in the house.

It could not be learned whet-her there was insurance. “S.

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gSharp Increase jIn income From ‘Farm Produce

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5'00 Planes In Smash At Axis ttWar Faitories

German Airfield In France Also ' Hard Hit; Night Raiders May Be i

Qver Germany.

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LONDON. Dec. 6——iCP)—'l'he Pleas Association said tonight i that today's raids over Europe were the illggflsi, daylight \I]i0r'l I bombing operations of the war.

LONDON, Dec. 6—-(CP)—R‘A.P‘, and Firitcd States holniwrs pounded l the Lille locomotive works and an enemy air field at Abbeviile in raids upon northern France today, an Allied communique salii.

Squadrons of ll..-\.F.. (lanadian, American and other Allied fighiera I supported these operations, in which seven enemy planes vr-cre dirslroyerl,

One Allied fighter and two bombers are missing,

It was the first combined Allied sweep over Praline since Nov. 23 ‘ when the Nazi submarine lair at St. Nazaire was bombed,

After these raiders had returned, the Deutsclr Landsender, (irr-

ncfp _.,-. m cash income from tlifi sale of Canadian _iarm product? durum r113 first liiiic lllfifliflg 0 ; this \‘\“.\i' was reiXllie-d [will by

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s. d. "The arr-latest. increase ill that three quarters of V1942 oc- c... cci in the PYQVWQ": o‘ Omajm" although substantial increases iii-Bio also reported f0; Quebec, the arr-rushes and British Columbia-

‘Hie iflill(.‘"i'= estimates were m. .1 U. Nap, ... of nrirkctings and

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§Aoute Struggle For Support of French People

LONDON. Dec. 6—tCP'i-—'1'1l€f three-way struggle for support} m my“ yywpig- by Admiral Jtali Dnrlun in North Africa. Goli- (jh-nrleg de Giiulle m Landon and inr- Lav-nl-Doriot-Dccbt cirque in Vighy QHQIPHFIIS is bccinnigirg mill‘;

; _- ‘ ic yea a . “w” 3* m. Wll/finlstcr Chinch-

forecast by Prime ill, cirnws notif-

The Vlrirv radio broadcast. an announcement today‘ that Admisiil Jcrin Dc La Horde who gave the order for the scuttiing of the French fleet at Toulon had been released by the trermans on he request of the Vichy government.